Harini Calamur's Writings
I spent the better part of last night clearing out spam from the Media Musings site. I felt positively homicidal at the end of the exercise. I wonder if that sort of action against spammers will be considered as insecticide!
The monsoons began last night in Mumbai. Full ishtyle. Non stop rains since about 9 pm. 16 or so hours later it seems like Mumbai has received a much needed wash. The only problem is that Rani is terribly confused. All her…
It almost seems that the spread of stories in the main stream media is viral. An idea that jump from on-line to paper to magazine to on line again. Usually within a short span – say a fortnight or a week. This…
One of the givens of living in Mumbai is during monsoons – commuting will take up to three times as much time – because most of the arterial roads dissolve. what is left is rubble, potholes and pain. Yesterday when we were…
The first time since we started Cogito TV, the three of us bunked work to go and see a film. ’twas Mani Ratnam’s Yuva. It is, say the publicity material, a film of three men whose lives intersect on Hoogly Bridge. And…
Sometime this week I read that Hindustan Lever Limited was relaunching Close Up and had planned an entire advertising blitz to make it a more “happening” toothpaste. Today when I dropped into Rediff a bizzare site awaited me:) A nice red home…
Had Ronald Reagan not died, he would have enjoyed reading his obituaries. Much of it has been at two extremes. Those on the left who villify him and those on the right who deify him. But, to be fair, compared to the…
Often on many discussion boards or on other blogs there is a oft expressed setiment – Democracy cannot be for every one. It can only be for those who are like “us”. I saw many of these sentiments expressed after the NDA…
From the : The Guardian While we can’t speak ill of the dead, surely we can wish a better hereafter for the living. A great analysis on Reagan’s contribution over here. Christopher Hitchens at his biting best.
A gem of an article. Author & marketing guru Al Ries looks at around 30 years of failed convergence and the claims of companies like AOL and Microsoft that convergence of the net with TV, will lead to unlimited viewer choice. He…